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Final Program.

Monday-Friday, 21-25 June 2021
Day 1, 2 and 5 – starting from 9:00am (GMT+8)
Day 3 – starting from 9:20am (GMT+8)
Day 4 – starting from 3:10pm (GMT+8)
EnglishDAY 1(MON, 21 JUN)DAY 2(TUE, 22 JUN)DAY 3(WED, 23 JUN)DAY 4(THU, 24 JUN)DAY 5(FRI, 25 JUN)

SECURING THE
FOUNDATION:OPERATIONALRESILIENCECYBERSECURITY
AND CCP RESILIENCE

CLOUD AND DATATECHNOLOGIES OF
THE FUTURE:
CBDCs, AI AND DLTLEVERAGING THE
FOUNDATION:OPERATIONALOUTLOOK

09:00-12:00

09:00-12:00

09:20-12:00

15:10-18:00

09:00-12:20

Keynote:Operational
Resilience: Pursuing
Global Convergencein thePost-Covidian Era
Arthur Lindo,
Deputy Director forPolicy, Division ofSupervision andRegulation,Federal Reserve
Board;
Chair, Operational
Resilience Working
Group,
Basel Committee on
Banking Supervision

KeynoteColin Pou,
Executive Director,
Financial
Infrastructure
Department,
Hong Kong
Monetary Authority(Note: This session isconducted under
Chatham House
Rules)

Panel 1:
Data Driven
Innovation:
Leveraging thePower of Data in
Capital Markets

Fireside Chat:
Impact of Central
Bank Digital
Currencies on
Capital Markets
Bénédicte Nolens,Head,BIS Innovation
Hub Hong Kong
CentreKeynote:Smarter Securities:
A Vision from SWIFT
Stella Lim,
Managing Director,
Asia Pacific,
SWIFT

Panel 1:
OperationalResilience

Panel 1:Cybersecurity

Panel 2:The Role of Cloud inCapital Markets

Presentation:
Regulatory Approachto a Novel AssetClass: Virtual Assets

Panel 1:Adopting Agile Work
Practices at Scale
within Asian
Wholesale Markets

Panel 2:
Outsourcing andThird-party Risk
Management

Panel 2:
CCP Resilience

Panel 1:
Asian Tokenised
Securities Market
The Role of DLT

Panel 2:
Interoperability,
Partnerships andNetwork-based
Solutions(To be continued on the next page)Branded Demo:
Utilising Cloud forReal Time Data
Chris Young,
Head of Enterprise
Data Solution Sales,
Refinitiv andKit Wan,
Solution Consulting
Director of Realtime
Market Data,
Refinitiv

BrandedPresentation:
Supercharge Your
Security Telemetry
with Chronicle
Sandeep Patil,
Regional Lead,
Security Sales &Partnerships,
Google Cloud
Asia Pacific andAlvin Lung,
Head of Customer
Engineer,
Google Cloud

Branded Demo:
Tick History in
Google CloudRakesh Singh,
Global ProductManager, Tick
History,
Refinitiv

Panel 2:AI in Capital Markets
BrandedPresentation:
SmartStream Air(AI Solution for Data
Integrity)
Victoria Harverson,
Global Head ofBusiness
Development, Air
SmartStream

Fireside Chatwith BIS Financial
Stability Institute:
BigTech and Changes
in Regulatory
Framework
Juan Carlos Crisanto,
Deputy Chairman,
Financial Stability
Institute,
Bank forInternational
Settlements
Branded Demo:
Accelerating
Innovation in CapitalMarkets withDevOps
Anthony Harel,
Director, Client
Services Technology,APAC,
Murex

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DAY 1 – MONDAY, 21 JUNE 2021
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09:00-09:02

Welcome Remarks 1▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech and Ops, ASIFMA

09:02-09:05

Welcome Remarks 2▪
Vernice Moh, Managing Director ASEAN, Refinitiv

09:05-09:25

Keynote: Operational Resilience: Pursuing Global Convergence in the
Post-Covidian Era▪
Arthur Lindo, Deputy Director for Policy, Division of Supervision andRegulation, Federal Reserve Board; Chair, Operational Resilience WorkingGroup, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

09:25-10:25

Panel 1: Operational Resilience: A Public/Private Dialogue on Achieving
Operational Resilience in APAC▪
What are APAC regulators’ expectations and views in light of the BCBS
Operational Resilience principles▪
How have firms and regulators understanding and implementation ofoperational resilience evolved over the last 12-18 months▪
What is the impact of the use of technology on firms’ operational resilience▪
How do firms continue to mature their operational resilience programs andcomply with evolving policies across jurisdictions▪
How well is industry prepared to deal with ‘Black Swan’ events▪
How do firms ensure their infrastructure is future-proof▪
Importance of cross-border data flow to support operational resilience▪
Kenrin Nishimura, Deputy Director, Prudential Standards Office, FinancialServices Agency, The Government of Japan▪
Phil Rodrigues, Head of Commercial Security, Asia-Pacific and Japan, AmazonWeb Services▪
Rushabh Mehta, Partner, Consulting, EY▪
Chris Young, Head of Enterprise Data Solution Sales, Refinitiv▪
Jessica Omoteso, Head of IT Resilience, Standard Chartered▪
Allison Parent, Executive Director, Global Financial Markets Association(moderator)

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10:25-11:25

Panel 2: Outsourcing and Third-party Risk Management▪
What are firms’ main drivers for outsourcing and what is the preferredstrategy around outsourcing/inhouse/offshoring▪
What does ideal third-party risk management look like. How to build an
efficient and effective vendor management framework▪
Have firms made changes to how outsourcing and third-party risk
management frameworks and relationships in light of Covid-19▪
Have recent supply chain incidents and attacks changed firms’ approach
towards the use of third parties (e.g. technology supporting criticaloperations)▪
What are the regulatory and supervisory expectations▪
What are the practical and compliance challenges that financial firms face▪
What are the main challenges for third-party providers in supporting theirfinancial institutions clients with their regulatory compliance? Are thirdparties aware and able to meet what is expected of them▪
Yasushi Shiina, Member of Secretariat, Financial Stability Board▪
Vincent Loy, Assistant Managing Director (Technology), Monetary Authorityof Singapore▪
Rhys McWhirter, Head of Technology, Hong Kong, Eversheds Sutherland▪
Peter Pernebo, Global Head of Third Party Risk Management Solutions, KY3Pby IHS Markit▪
Natalie Swallow, Executive Director, Asia Head of Tech & Data Legal, MorganStanley▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech and Ops, ASIFMA(moderator)

11:25-11:55 Branded Demo: Utilising Cloud for Real Time Data▪
Chris Young, Head of Enterprise Data Solution Sales, Refinitiv▪
Kit Wan, Solution Consulting Director of Realtime Market Data, Refinitiv
11:55-12:00

Closing Remarks▪
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DAY 2 – TUESDAY, 22 JUNE 2021
CYBERSECURITY AND CCP RESILIENCEEVENT LEAD SPONSOR:SUPPORTING PARTNER:

DAY 2 LEAD SPONSOR:

09:00-09:02

Welcome Remarks 1▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech and Ops, ASIFMA

09:02-09:05

Welcome Remarks 2▪
Dave Hannigan, Director of Security and Compliance, Google

09:05-09:25

Keynote▪
Colin Pou, Executive Director, Financial Infrastructure Department, Hong
Kong Monetary Authority▪
(Note: This session is conducted under Chatham House rules. Participants arefree to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliationof the speaker, nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.)

09:25-10:25

Panel 1: Cybersecurity▪
Lessons learnt during the pandemic and the reshaping a cybersecurity strategy
for the new normal▪
Harmonising and facilitating regulatory compliance - the role of the FinancialSector Cybersecurity Profile▪
Thoughts on establishing an efficient firm-led penetration testing framework▪
Incident reporting: fragmentation challenges and proposed solutions▪
How do regulators and industry prepare to react to and recover from a global
systemic cyber event? How can the FSB proposed “Effective Practices for
Cyber Incident Response and Recovery (CIRR)” tookit help?
▪
Triyono Gani, Executive Director of Digital Financial Innovation Group,Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (Indonesia Financial Services Authority)▪
Charles Samuel, Group CISO / Technology Risk Management, CIMB▪
Dr Scott Flower, Global Intelligence Officer (APAC), FS-ISAC▪
Mark Johnston, Google Cloud Security Lead, Google▪
Jame DiBiasio, Founder, DigFin (moderator)

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10:25-11:25

Panel 2: CCP Resilience▪
Margin models as a key resiliency block and how these performed amidst
COVID volatility▪
Importance of robust CCP SITG▪
Limited usage of recovery tools▪
CCP recapitalization resources▪
Gilles lequinio, Director, Head of Asia Settlement Risk, Barclays▪
Paul Clarke, Managing Director, Risk and Quantitative Analysis Group,BlackRock▪
Divya Narula, Executive Director, APAC Clearinghouse Risk, JP Morgan▪
Agnes Koh, Chief Risk Officer, Singapore Exchange (SGX)▪
Lyndon Chao, Managing Director – Head of Equities and Post Trade, ASIFMA(moderator)

11:25-11:55 Branded Presentation: Supercharge Your Security Telemetry with Chronicle▪
Chronicle, a global security telemetry platform makes security analytics
instant, easy, and cost-effective. Chronicle is a specialized, cloud-native
security analytics system, built on the core infrastructure that powers Googleitself.
▪
Chronicle helps make petabytes of enterprise security data - like EDR, firewall,
VPN, DNS, and web proxy telemetry - useful right away for threat detection,
response, and hunting.
▪
Join this session to learn about the unique components of the Chronicle
security analytics platform that enable security teams to supercharge theirsecurity telemetry.
▪
Sandeep Patil, Regional Lead, Security Sales & Partnerships, Google Cloud
Asia Pacific▪
Alvin Lung, Head of Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
11:55-12:00

Closing Remarks▪
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DAY 3 – WEDNESDAY, 23 JUNE 2021
CLOUD AND DATAEVENT LEAD SPONSOR:SUPPORTING PARTNER:

09:20-09:22Welcome Remarks 1▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech and Ops, ASIFMA

09:22-09:25

Welcome Remarks 2▪
David Day, Head of North Asia, Data & Analytics, London Stock ExchangeGroup

09:25-10:25

Panel 1: Data-driven Innovation: Leveraging the Power of Data in Capital Markets▪
What is the role of data in digitising capital markets▪
How to transform into a data-driven organisation and how to incubate a datadriven culture▪
What are the implications of open banking and data sharing (including for dataprivacy and security) and how to address these▪
Importance of data for regulatory reporting, innovation, AI adoption, regtechaddoption▪
Can we move to a regional/global standard▪
The importance of cross-border data sharing to support and achieve
operational resilience▪
Celine Le Cotonnec, Chief Data and Innovation Officer, Bank of Singapore▪
Brian Harley, Consultant, Clifford Chance▪
John Wu, Associate Director for Business Development – North Asia/Australia
and New Zealand, DTCC▪
Jia Mao, Managing Director, Co-Head of Asia Pacific Core Engineering,
Goldman Sachs▪
Rakesh Singh, Global Product Manager, Tick History, Refinitiv▪
Mark Austen, CEO, ASIFMA (moderator)

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10:25-11:25

Panel 2: The Role of Cloud in Capital Markets▪
ASIFMA Suggested Principles for Public Cloud regulation▪
What are the benefits and opportunities for cloud adoption in capital markets,
what are the use cases▪
What are the current regulatory approaches in the region and globally▪
How do firms move from legacy systems to cloud and what are the practicaloperational challenges▪
How to drive interoperability and data portability in a cloud environment▪
Tan Tze Meng, Head, Data Cloud Business Unit, Digital Infrastructure andServices Department, Digital Adoption Ecosystem Division, Malaysia Digital
Economy Corporation (MDEC)▪
Robert Coughlan, Google Cloud Finance Sector Lead, Google▪
Bojan Obradovic, Head of Cloud Services for Asia Pacific, HSBC▪
Tom Alaerts, Lead Standards Specialist, APAC, SWIFT▪
Gordon Russell, Head of Asia, Torstone Technology▪
Tamara Singh, Founder, W3CDD (moderator)

11:25-11:55 Branded Demo: Tick History in Google Cloud▪
Rakesh Singh, Global Product Manager, Tick History, Refinitiv
11:55-12:00

Closing Remarks▪
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DAY 4 – THURSDAY, 24 JUNE 2021
TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE – CBDCs, AI AND DLTEVENT LEAD SPONSOR:SUPPORTING PARTNER:

DAY 4 LEAD SPONSOR:

15:10-15:12

Welcome Remarks 1▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech and Ops, ASIFMA

15:12-15:15

Welcome Remarks 2▪
Radha Pillay, Head of APAC, SmartStream

15:15-15:35

Fireside Chat: Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on Capital Markets▪
Bénédicte Nolens, Head, BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre▪
Mark Austen, CEO, ASIFMA (moderator)

15:35-15:40

Presentation: Regulatory Approach to a Novel Asset Class: Virtual Assets▪
Clara KL Chiu, Director of Licensing and Head of Fintech Unit, Securities andFutures Commission

15:40-16:35

Panel 1: State of and Outlook for the Asian Tokenised Securities Market: The Roleof DLT▪
ASIFMA 2021 Tokenised securities paper on state of play▪
What are the benefits of blockchain in capital markets and of tokenisingsecurities▪
What are some of the recent successful use cases in Asia▪
What are the remaining regulatory, technology and ecosystem challenges forthe adoption of tokenised securities▪
What will be the trigger point for mass adoption▪
Patricia Mongkhonvanit, Director-General, Public Debt Management Office(PDMO), Thailand▪
Victor Alexiev, Head, Programs and Strategic Partnerships APAC, Citi Ventures▪
Charles d’Haussy, APAC Managing Director, ConsenSys▪
Ben El-Baz, Head of Ecosystem, Hashkey▪
Simona Catanescu, Director of Securities Strategy, SWIFT▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director, Technology and Operations,ASIFMA (moderator)

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16:35-17:35

Panel 2: AI in Capital Markets▪
ASIFMA AI paper launch▪
What are the AI use cases in capital markets▪
How do firms mitigate the risks related to AI? What are firms already doing interms of AI governance and what else is needed?
▪
How can FIs build a regional AI framework?
▪
What level of transparency/explainability is needed?
▪
How can the outcomes be monitored?
▪
Are the incumbents ready to leverage the solutions that AI offers?
▪
Are regulators ready to leverage AI and a data-driven and AI poweredapproach to supervision and suptech?
▪
Alp Eroglu, Senior Policy Advisor, IOSCO▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech & Ops, ASIFMA▪
Boon-Hiong Chan, Head of Securities Market and Technology Advocacy,Securities Services, Corporate Bank, Deutsche Bank AG Singapore▪
Andreas Burner, Chief Innovation Officer, SmartStream▪
Shameek Kundu, Head of Financial Services and Chief Strategy Officer, TruEra▪
Chris Barford, Partner, Financial Services Consulting, EY; Co-chair, AI & Big
Data Committee, FinTech Association of Hong Kong (moderator)

17:35-17:55 Branded Presentation: SmartStream Air (AI Solution for Data Integrity)▪
Victoria Harverson, Global Head of Business Development, Air, SmartStream
17:55-18:00 Closing Remarks▪
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DAY 5 – FRIDAY, 25 JUNE 2021
LEVERAGING THE FOUNDATION: OPERATIONAL OUTLOOKEVENT LEAD SPONSOR:SUPPORTING PARTNER:

DAY 5 LEAD SPONSOR:

09:00-09:02

Welcome Remarks 1▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech and Ops, ASIFMA

09:02-09:05

Welcome Remarks 2▪
Anthony Harel, Director, Client Services Technology, APAC, Murex

09:05-09:25

Keynote: Smarter Securities: A Vision from SWIFT▪
Stella Lim, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, SWIFT

09:25-10:25

Panel 1: Adopting Agile Work Practices at Scale within Asian Wholesale Markets▪
What are Agile work practices and why are firms now adopting them at scale▪
How to move from a waterfall approach to agile working?
▪
What barriers remain for firms to increase their organizational flexibility andadopt new ways of working▪
Impact of remote working as the potential new normal▪
What actions are needed to continue supporting the adoption of Agile work
practices in the Asian capital markets▪
Are Agile work practices able to reduce change risk, and is the regulatory
framework accommodating▪
How will Agile impact the workforce and what does it mean for the required
skillsets?
▪
Anthony Harel, Director, Client Services Technology, APAC, Murex▪
Aleem Jivraj, Managing Director & Global Markets COO, Asia Ex-Japan,Nomura▪
Eric Rabin, Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific, Société Générale
▪
Zhuo (Abraham) Li, Managing Director, China Head of Global Technology
Service for Institutional Services, Middle Office, Global Exchange and Alpha,State Street▪
Helene Li, General Manager, Fintech Association of Hong Kong (moderator)

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10:25-11:25

Panel 2: Interoperability, Partnerships and Network-based Solutions▪
How do firms collaborate across the industry to drive automation andinnovation?
▪
How can firms create network-based solutions? And how does technology
support such solutions?
▪
Industry consortiums and utilities – success factors and pitfalls▪
How to achieve interoperability and portability▪
Whas is/will be the real market benefit of increased interoperability andinteraction?
▪
Have the last 12-18 months accelerated some of these initiatives?
▪
Tom Pease, Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific Operations, GoldmanSachs▪
Jen Flowers, Head of Asia Partnerships & Innovation, Wealth and Personal
Banking, HSBC▪
Mazy Dar, Co-Founder and CEO, OpenFin▪
Queenie Chan, General Manager, APAC, Symphony Communication Services▪
Pauline Wray, Managing Director, Head of Asia & FCT Global Lead, Expand
Research (moderator)

11:25-11:55

Fireside Chat with BIS Financial Stability Institute: BigTech and Changes inRegulatory Framework▪
Juan Carlos Crisanto, Deputy Chair, Financial Stability Institute, Bank ofInternational Settlements▪
Elvie Lahournere, Chair of ASIFMA Fintech Working Group and Director Digitaland Innovation, Asia Pacific, Natixis (moderator)

11:55-12:15

Branded Demo: Accelerating Innovation in Capital Markets with DevOps▪
Anthony Harel, Director, Client Services Technology, APAC, Murex

12:15-12:20

Closing Remarks▪
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech and Ops, ASIFMAAt ASIFMA, we are committed to ensuring diversity and inclusion in our workplace and this policy isapplied in all areas of our business including speaker roles at our events and conferences. We wish towork with members and partners who share this same commitment and are willing to support this policy.

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